Seminars

A list of seminars and webinars of relevance to researchers in infectious diseases. Joining links will be updated as they are made available.

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - Building a leaf: what makes a palisade cell?

Date: Monday 16 November 2026

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Online: Via TEAM. Meeting ID: 317 245 687 530 536 2. Passcode: Hw3Hf9Pm

Speaker: Chris Whitewoods, John Innes Centre, Norwich

Host: Annis Richardson (IMPS)

School of Biological Sciences Seminar - Regulation of fungal pathogen biology by RSC chromatin remodeler

Date: Tuesday 17 November 2026

Time: 12 pm

Location: Michael Swann Building – 7.15, Kings Buildings campus

Speaker: Prof. Santanu Kumar Ghosh , Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

Host: Jeyaprakash Arulanandam (ICB)

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar Series - From Cilia to Chemotaxis: Insights from Industrial Drug Discovery in Respiratory diseases

Date: Wednesday 18 November 2026

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 364 882 263 550 567 3. Passcode: p4eT3oc2

Speaker: Linda Yrlid, Astrazeneca (Gothenberg)

Host: Georgia Perona-Wright

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - The evolution of cooperation and climate resilience in a Kalahari bird

Date: Wednesday 18 November 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 319 575 070 472 925 6 Passcode: JB7tm2bX

Speaker: Andy Young, University of Exeter

Host: Dan Nussey

Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Winter Lecture 2026 - Professor Sir Peter Horby

Date: Wednesday 18 November 2026

Time: 5.30 pm followed by drinks reception from 6.30pm

Location: The Informatics Forum, Crichton Street, Edinburgh

Provisional Lecture Title: Emerging Infections: Research, Collaboration, and Preparedness

Speaker: Professor Sir Peter Horby, Director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute and Moh Family Foundation Professor of Emerging Infections and Global Health at the University of Oxford.

Registration: Please register here on Eventbrite to attend.

Engineering Biology in Farmed Animals webinar series - Webinar 2: Engineering biology in poultry - From Discovery to Application

Date: Thursday 19th November 2026

Time: 2.30 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speakers: Dr James Glover (The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh) 'Avian Transgenics: Past, Present and Future'

                 Dr Mark Cigan (Managing Director, Genetic Innovation, Cobb-Vantress) 'Translating and Scaling Innovation: Lessons from Crops Applied to Livestock'

Registration: Please click registration link to attend.

Edinburgh Linnean Society Lecture - Restoring Nature by Moving Species

Date: Thursday 19 November 2026

Time: 6 - 8 pm

Location: Anatomy Lecture Theatre/ Doorway 3, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AJ Edinburgh

Registration: To register please click here to go to the Eventbrite page.

Speaker:  Dr Martin Gaywood is a Senior Researcher at IBFC, UHI Inverness and Species Projects Manager at NatureScot

Host: Linnean Society of London

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 23 November 2026

Time: 4.40 pm

Location: Michael Swann, 7.20, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Mark Ashe, The University of Manchester

Host: ICB

The Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA), in collaboration with the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society and Edinburgh Infectious Disease round table discussion - COMMUNITIES AT THE CENTRE: Sustaining the HIV Response in a Time of Financial Upheaval

Date: Tuesday 24 November 2026

Time: 1- 1.45 pm

Online: Via ZOOM. Please register to attend via the link here.

This roundtable will bring together distinguished voices from public health, global HIV leadership and civil society to explore the intersection of community leadership, sustainable financing, human rights and political accountability.

Speakers include: Dr Winnie Byanyima (Executive Director, UNAIDS), Prof Jeanine Condo (Founder and CEO, CIIC-HIN; Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Rwanda), Micheal Ighodaro (Executive Director, Global Black Gay Men Connect), Maurine Murenga (Coordinator, TB Women Global).

The Edinburgh Microbiology Forum Seminar Series - Evolutionarily unlinked transcription factors converge on common regulons to fine-tune Escherichia coli bloodstream pathogenesis

Date: Tuesday 24 November 2026

Time: 1.30 pm

Location: The Roslin Institute, Auditorium, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian

ONline: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 328 050 572 933 529 Passcode: TF9Fq6pD

Speaker: James Connolly, Newcastle University

Host: David Gally (david.gally@roslin.ed.ac.uk) and Alison Low (Alison.Low@ed.ac.uk)

Institute of Ecology and Evolution Seminar - King or Royal family ? King cobra stories from the field

Date: Tuesday 24 November 2026

Time: 2 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus, Edinburgh

Speaker: Gowri Shankar, evolutionary biologist and founder of the Kalinga Foundation

Host: Katerina Guschanski

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - Signalling and regulation of autophagy-related pathways in T. brucei

Date: Wednesday 25 November 2026

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 353 393 614 957 061 1 Passcode: jQ3rj2k8

Speaker: Mathieu Cayla, University of York

Host: Joanna Young

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - Quantifying the evolutionary advantage of recombination

Date: Wednesday 25 November 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 338 767 700 086 135 4 Passcode: m44xk6bx

Speaker: Denis Roze, Sorbonne Université

Host: Laura Ross

CEB + RNA Biology/Technology | Joint Seminar - Engineering RNA manufacturing: from mRNA to self-amplifying and circular RNA vaccines and therapeutics

Date: Thursday 26 November 2026

Time: 9.30 - 10.30 am

Location:Seminar room 1.08, C.H Waddington Building, King's Buildings Campus (ground floor)

Speaker: Professor Zoltan Kis (University of Sheffield)

Host: Prof Amy Buck, School of Biological Sciences.

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 2 December 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 341 248 826 902 261. Passcode: 2Fa3UD2D

Speaker: Maria Moiron, Bielefeld University

Host: Craig Walling

EdiRNA society seminar series 8

Date: Wednesday 2 December 2026

Time: 3 to 5 pm (expected start at 15:10)

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Building, Kings Buildings, Edinburgh

Registration: Please register to attend at the eventbrite link here

Speakers: Prof Jonathan Pettitt – “The role of an essential RNA methylation involved in C.elegans innate immunity" – University of Aberdeen

                 Dr Appie Beqqali - “From RNA regulation to cardiac regeneration: understanding and reprogramming the diseased heart" – University of Edinburgh

                 Dr Pieter Steketee - “How RNA-binding proteins encode lipid responsiveness in African trypanosomes" – University of Edinburgh

Host: EdiRNA committee

Please join us for an afternoon of talks followed by pizza and socialising.

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - Harnessing global biodiversity data to understand the ecological impacts of environmental changes

Date: Monday 7 December 2026

Time: 3 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 390 803 080 562 091 5. Passcode: qf9Li3Jw

Speaker: Tim Newbold, University College London

Host: Ally Phillimore

Institute of Ecology & Evolution seminar series - TBA

Date: Thursday 10 December 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Speaker: Stephen Montgomery, University of Cambridge

Host: Susan Johnston and Simon Martin

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - Bridging Ecology and Society to Conserve the Snow Leopard and the High Mountains of Asia

Date: *Friday 18* December 2026 - note different day

Time: 11 am

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 329 184 610 766 030 1 Passcode: H87Tt3X4

Speaker: Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi, Director, Snow Leopard Trust - India Program and Scientist, Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore, India

Host: Sanjana Ravindran

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 11 January 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Eugene Kim, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt

Host: Kyle Muir, DRP-HCB/CCBIO

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 25 January 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Chris Barnes, University College of London

Host: IQB3

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 1 February 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Emmanuel Derivery, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge

Host: Julie Welburn, DRP-HCB/CCBIO

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 8 March 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Clay Wang, USC, USA

Host: IQB3

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 15 March 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Matthew Fisher, Imperial College, London

Host: SBS

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 22 March 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker:  Kathryn Lilly, University of Cambridge

Host: IQB3

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 26 April 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Manu De Rycker, University of Dundee

Host: ICB

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 7 June 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Simone Reber, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin

Host: Matthew Swaffer, DRP-HCB/CCBIO

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 21 June 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Thibaut Brunet, Institut Pasteur, France

Host: ICB

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 28 June 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Seth Rubin, University of California, USA

Host: ICB

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